mel brooks got the same shit for all the times his characters used the word nigger in blazing saddles but according to brooks all these complaints came basically from white people or equality lobby groups when he asked black actors people on the set and even got comments from african americans on the street they all understood that yea people said nigger a lot back then it sucked but by todays standards there were a lot of racists back in the day and it was considered fairly normal oh yea it was also cowritten by richard pryor